Transport Assessor

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall Glenfield Leicester LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: 28605 - 31029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours:37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 08/02/2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

Due to retirement we have a vacancy for a Transport Assessor to join the Passenger Transport Service within the Assisted Transport Service. This is a busy service providing school transport to eligible mainstream children and children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

About the Role

As Transport Assessor you will work primarily in the Risk Assessment team assessing the transport requirements of children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. The successful candidate will be motivated and flexible to meet the various team commitments. You will be well organized and able to prioritise your work meet tight deadlines and work as part of a team. Your focus will be:

• To complete and review individual risk assessments to determine suitable transport arrangements either for home to school or day care services
• Provide risk assessment advice to colleagues across the Assisted Transport Service to assist service delivery
• Laise with parents/carers colleagues operators schools and other relevant stakeholders tosupport the safe and efficient delivery of home to school transport
• Support the delivery of in-person training to external transport providers
• To handover specialist equipment where this is specified in a childs risk assessment to ensure transport providers are competent in its use.
• You will be expected to meet service commitments including regular working at County Hall conducting visits to schools (usually at the start and end of the school day) and delivering in person training either at County Hall or other venues across Leicestershire.

About You

To apply for this post you must:

• Experience of gathering and interpreting information from different sources to produce written reports and correspondence with excellent attention to detail
• Experience and confidence in using a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office (Word Excel Outlook) and database packages
• Knowledge or experience of special educational needs and disabilities in the context of providing a service
• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to problem solve and achieve suitable outcomes for children and adults with SEND whilst also working to tight deadlines
• Possess excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise assertively empathetically and calmly with members of the public including parents and carers
• The ability to travel to schools and venues across Leicestershire as required

You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:

Rosa Barron- Passenger Transport Manager

Telephone:

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How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the supporting statement should beno longer than 500 words

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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